With a high pace of innovation and features and services launched daily, it can be hard to keep up with what’s new from AWS. The AWS Quarterly Update is a new way to catch up and review the biggest updates from the past quarter. You will have the opportunity to ask Jeff Barr questions during the live Q&A session following the presentation. Learning Objectives: Understand new releases Understand how AWS new releases can help you

1. AWS Q2 2016 Recap
Jeff Barr, Director of AWS Evangelism
(@jeffbarr)

2. Written more than 2,500 posts for
AWS; and1,100 on his personal blog
Technical reviewer for 4 books
on web services
Author: Host Your Website
in the Cloud
Furthers developer awareness
to build on AWS cloud
Previous employment: Microsoft, KnowNow, Ebyz, Akopia
Co-founder of Visix Software
Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist

3. Quarterly Update

4. New program!
Once a quarter
Highlight recent launches from that quarter
Quarterly Update

5. #1
Expanded Footprint and
Platform Availability

6. Regional updates

8. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery now in China (Beijing) Region
AWS Marketplace Metering Service now in EU (Ireland)
Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring now in the South America (Sao Paulo) and China
(Beijing) Regions
AWS Certificate Manager now available in 9 additional Regions: US West (N.
California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia
Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America
(Sao Paulo)
AWS Config launches in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Support in the Beijing (China) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific
(Singapore) Regions
Amazon RDS adds Multi-AZ support for SQL Server in Tokyo, Sydney and Sao Paulo
AWS Regions
AWS CodeDeploy Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia
Pacific (Seoul) Regions
Regional updates

9. #2
New Services

10. Automatically identifies applications
running in on-premises data centers,
their associated dependencies and their
performance profile
Involves thousands of workloads
often interdependent
Simplifies cloud migration planning process
Easily integrates with cloud migration tools
Protects data with end-to-end encryption
AWS Application Discovery Service

11. AWS Certificate Manager
Easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets
Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use
with AWS services.
Quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources and
let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals.
SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate
Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you
create to run your application.

12. #3
Generally Available Services

13. Secure, managed business email and calendar service with
support for existing desktop and mobile email clients
Seamlessly access email, contacts, and calendars using
Microsoft Outlook, web browser, or native iOS and Android
email applications
Integrate with existing corporate directory
Control both the keys that encrypt your data and the location in
which your data is stored
Free 30-day trial of Amazon WorkMail for up to 25 users
Amazon WorkMail

14. Add and configure features to your mobile apps,
including user authentication with Facebook and
Google+, data storage, backend logic, push
notifications, and content delivery
Easy access to testing on real devices
Analytics dashboards to track usage of your app
Added NoSQL database service
There are no additional charges for using the AWS
Mobile Hub
Mobile Hub

15. Amazon Inspector
Improves application security and
compliance
Identifies potential security issues
and vulnerabilities
Analyzes an application’s configuration
and activity, looking for a wide spectrum
of vulnerabilities
Reports findings with detailed recommendations
for remediation

16. AWS Database Migration Service
Migrate your databases to AWS easily and
securely with zero downtime.
Supports migrations between similar and
different database platforms.
You only pay for the compute resources used
during the migration process and any additional
log storage

17. #4
Services Expanded

18. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Simplified, accelerated way to move
on-premises data to the cloud
Maximize transfer speeds
Highly optimized network bridge
No: gateway servers, firewalls, special protocols/clients or
upfront fees
Accelerates S3 uploads up to 500%
Speed Comparison tool …

19. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Speed Comparison

20. AWS Import/Export Snowball
Export
Export large amounts of data from AWS
Export from one or more S3 buckets
Service will determine how many appliances are needed

21. AWS Device Farm
Remote Access
Test apps as through on a device
Interact with the device via the console
Gesture, swipe and interact with devices in real time
through your web browser

22. Amazon Aurora
Sharing DB snapshots across accounts
Cross Region replication
Sharing database snapshots across accounts
Share snapshots with other AWS accounts or make them
public
Use to restore the database to an Aurora instance running in a
separate AWS account in the same Region as the snapshot
Interact with the device via the console
Cross Region replication
Create cross-region read replicas for Amazon Aurora
Improved disaster recovery capabilities

23. AWS announced two, new, low-cost
HDD-backed storage options
Benefits include predictable performance for
throughput-intensive and big data workloads
with large data sets, large I/O block sizes and
sequential I/O patterns
Persistent block-level storage volumes
Each EBS volume automatically replicated
within AZ to protect from component failure
Range of options for storage performance
based on workload
Amazon EBS
2 new EBS volume types introduced

24. X1 instances for Amazon EC2
Largest Amazon EC2 memory-optimized
instance – 2 TB of memory
The most memory in any SAP-certified cloud instance
Powered by four 2.3GHz Intel Xeon E7 8880 v3
(Haswell) processors
10GB/second of dedicated bandwidth
Ideal for running in-memory databases, big data processing
engines and high-performance computing workloads

25. Programmable Dash Button

26. Programmable Dash Button

27. Compute
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports automatic
service scaling
Amazon EC2 run command adds document sharing
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces managed platform updates
Networking
Amazon Route 53 announces metric based health checks,
DNS failover for private hosted zones, and configurable
health check locations
Notable, New Enterprise Features

28. Storage & content delivery
EBS introduces two, low-cost, high-throughput HDD volume types
AWS introduced new Amazon S3 lifecycle policies
Database
Amazon Redshift UNION ALL queries and VACUUM
commands now run up to 10x faster
Amazon Redshift improves throughput performance up to 2X
Create new Redshift data sources in Amazon Machine Learning
Now view Amazon Aurora clusters on the RDS console
Notable, New Enterprise Features

29. Management tools
AWS Config now provides faster recording of tag changes,
new managed rule and other usability improvements
Amazon CloudWatch Events now supported in AWS
CloudFormation templates
Notable, New Enterprise Features

30. Security + Identity Management
Simplified trust configuration for AWS Directory Service
Internet of Things
AWS IoT now supports integration with Amazon Machine Learning
and AWS CloudTrail
AWS IoT now offers APIs to register and use security
certificates signed by customers’ Certificate Authority (CA)
Notable, New Enterprise Features

31. #5
New Resources

32. Resources for Developers, ITDMs, Web Admins
2016 AWS Global Summit Series
United States
Santa Clara – July 13, 14
New York City – August 10, 11
Global
Mumbai – June 28
Auckland – June 29
Bangalore – June 30
London – July 6, 7
Beijing – September 7, 8

33. New AWS Whitepapers
Core Tenets of IoT
Use AWS Config to Monitor License Compliance on Amazon EC2
Dedicated Hosts
Getting Started with Amazon Aurora
How AWS Pricing Works
aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/

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